Hair of the Dog Fred

Brewed by Hair of the Dog Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portland, Oregon USA

Pours a slightly hazy orange, slightly flocculent, small foam ring. Aroma of alcohol, faint hops, and sweet syrup (maple?) Strong taste of hops! Very present alcohol in the taste, as well as maple syrup or brown sugar, some light fruitiness (pear?) and a slight astringency. Hoppy, tart, warm finish. Thin body and subtle carbonation. Overall, this was very pleasantly spicy and fruity - complex and interesting beer!

On tap at The Alembic in San Francisco. Hazy orange with a massive yellowish head displaying eternal retention and generating thick ropey lace. Silky soft, full bodied, a little yeasty, with peach, pear, orange, and Christmas candy spice all showing up through the palate. A beautiful dessert sipper!

12oz. Bottle: Aroma is very sweet. Smells of malts, dark fruits, candy sugar, and Cabernet. Poured a dark copper color with a huge, foamy, creamy, tan head that lasted throughout. Good lacing. Cloudy. Opaque. Lots of particles of varying sizes. Flavor is heavily sweet and lightly bitter. Tastes of malts, dark fruits, piney hops, toasting, alcohol, and caramel. Medium to full body. Creamy texture. Average carbonation. Short malty finish. Overall, good, but I prefer a hoppier Barley Wine.

Bottle at Cafe Volo. pours a DEEP mahogany/caramel color. Nose is big on malt, and caramel. flavour is much of the same. The alcohol warms my throat as it goes down, just a superb sipping barley wine.

Amber colored beer pours with no head. From a distance, you would say I’m drinking a large glass of whiskey. Aroma has a bit of alchohol and some malty tones. It says special golden ale on the bottle, but clearly it’s an nice barleywine. Could do with some aging, but an excellent beer nonetheless.

Pours a dark amber color with a small white head. Very sweet smelling, very malty, some caramel, just a small dose of some hops. Very sharp bitter malt flavor, with hops mixed in as well. A little more bitter in the finish and especially the aftertaste. The malts seem to overpower most of the flavor in the front, almost a little bit too much. Maybe a little more balance is needed here. Still good, but maybe a tone down on the malts and sweetness would be more to my liking.

Fred kicks butt. Poured golden brown, with a thick frothy head. Lots of malt and sweets in the nose, lots of malt and hops in the flavor, good blend. Mouthfeel is smooth.

Poured amber with creamy off whtie head that lingered til the last drop. Aroma of spice, sweet malt, and spice. Pretty hoppy taste with a good malt background. Well balanced. Hints of fruit and spice throughout. Pretty smoothe for being 10%.